Finding Aid for the Buffalo Foundation Research Reports, 1921-1947

Collection Overview

Collection Title:	Buffalo Foundation Research Reports, 1921-1947
Collection Number:	MS 17
Creator:	Buffalo Foundation
Extent:	6 manuscript boxes (3.0 linear feet)
Repository:	University Archives (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Abstract:	Unpublished research reports from the Buffalo Foundation, 1921-1938. Complete file of typed studies, some including working papers, prepared by the Foundation on subjects pertaining to Buffalo and Erie County community welfare.

Copyright

Copyright is retained by the Buffalo Foundation for the Buffalo Foundation Research Reports collection. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.

Acquisition Information

Accession 00-xxx, a group of materials from the Buffalo Foundation, was received by the Archives June 27, 1968.

Note: The following two reports were not part of this accession:

Neighborhood House Study- Oak Street (1931 and 1934); given to Neighborhood House for historical use on 3/22/63.

Westminster House (December 1930); given by the Foundation to the agency for historical use, and not included in this accession.

Scope and Content Note

This collection includes typescript research reports, 1921-1938, of the Buffalo Foundation, concerning community welfare in Buffalo and Erie County, New York, and the Foundation Forum, 1921-1947, a publication of the Buffalo Foundation. Subjects of the reports include the activities of local welfare and service organizations, including the Babcock Street Community House, the Buffalo Orphan Asylum, Camp Fire Girls, Children's Aid Society, Friendship House, Salvation Army, and the Visiting Nursing Association; studies of social issues including child welfare, juvenile delinquency, hospitals, housing, recreational facilities, and other issues.

Container List

1.1			Babcock Street Community House, July 1922
1.2			Buffalo Employment Survey, January 1935; Buffalo Unemployment Survey, 1933
1.3			Buffalo Orphan Asylum, March-May 1921
1.4-1.5			Buffalo Police Department-Boys and Girls 16-20 years of age, charged with offenses, 1930-1933
1.6			Camp Fire Girls of Buffalo, Girl Scouts of Buffalo and Erie County, Girl Reserves of YWCA- A study, March 1928
1.7			Children's Aid Society, January 1922
1.8			Children's Aid Society, Study of Field Work, 1921
1.9			Crippled Children and the Blind, Memorandum concerning Buffalo facilities for, April 1926
2.1			Educational Cost Survey, 1919-1922
2.2			Educational Foundation Plan, 1922-?
2.3			Erie County Board of Child Welfare, Study of Activities, October 1921
2.4			Erie County Board of Child Welfare, Study of Insurance, 1928
2.5			Fitch Creche Studies, March 1923, September 1926
2.6			Free Time Interests of 500 Buffalonians, ?-1937
2.7			Friendship Home, February 1924
2.8			Health Center Free Dispensary #5- Urologic Clinic, June 1921
2.9			Housing of 1000 Families in Buffalo, October 1936
3.1			Intermediate or Junior High School, March 1922
3.2			Juvenile Delinquency by Census Tracts, 1930-1933
3.3			Legal Aid Survey, 1924-1926
3.4			Maternal Welfare Committee, Progress Report, 1930
3.5			Memorial Chapel, Report of, 1922
3.6			Mercy Hospital Campaign, October 1923
3.7			Negro Housing Study, 1920's
3.8			Neighborhood Houses #1, #2, #3 Study, 1929-1930
3.9			Origin & History of the Census Tract as a Statistical Tool, by Jean Wallace, 1937
3.10			Out-of-Wedlock Children, 1937
3.11			Powaget-by-the-Sea, Rhode Island, a camp project for undernourished children, July 1923
4.1			Probation Study, September 1942
4.2			Public Health Nursing Study- Visiting Nursing Association, 1920's
4.3			Recreational Facilities, Report of, ?-1932
4.4			RENT- Low Rent Areas, Buffalo, 1938
4.5			Salvation Army, Memorandum of Social Service Activities, March 1924
4.6-4.7			Salvation Army Home & Ingleside Home, Study of the Problem of Unmarried Mothers in Buffalo, September 1928
5.1			Six Unfavorable Factors: Ranking of Buffalo Census Tracts for Average Occurrence, 1930-1933
5.2			Tract 12, Census Study, 1930
5.3			Twelve Year Review of the Buffalo Foundation, 1920-1932
5.4-5.5			Type, Cost, and Adequacy of Housing in Relation to Composition and Certain Characteristics of 421 Families, December 1935
5.6			Wright Board of Education Bill, 1922 Session of the New York State Legislature
5.7			YWCA Industrial Study, 1922
5.8			Youth in Erie County, 18-24 Years of Age, 1938
6			Foundation Forum, 1921-1947

Search Terms

Subject Terms

Community foundations--New York (State)--Buffalo Region.

Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations--New York (State)-- Buffalo Region.

Endowments--New York (State)--Buffalo Region--Societies, etc.

Charities--New York (State)--Buffalo Region--Societies, etc.

Social service--New York (State)--Buffalo Region.

Children--Institutional care--New York (State)--Buffalo Region.

Nonprofit organizations--New York (State)--Buffalo Region.

Grants-in-aid--New York (State)--Buffalo Region.

Research grants--New York (State)--Buffalo Region.

Community organization--New York (State)--Buffalo Region.

Community development--New York (State)--Buffalo Region.